order to provide a

Defeat Bonner

remier Bennett has announced a by-election in the Cari-
boo constituency, to be held November 28,

The Socred candidate-elect, Mr.
obviously been cajoled by his chief into vacating his seat in
‘*safe” seat for attorney-general Robert

William Speare, has

Bonner, rejected by the electors of Point Grey in the last
provincial election in a major blow to Bennett. and his Socred
regime,

The people of the Cariboo are a proud people, with a his-
tory and tradition which carpetbagger Bonner just doesn't
measure up to in any respect whatsoever, 2

Bonner is one of Socredia’s top salesmen of British
Columbia’s resources and independence to the U.S, monopo-
lists. His advocacy of ‘‘customs union” with the U.S. differs
only with the Bonners of 1871 who would have “annexed”
British Columbia to Washington, U.S.A., instead of joining
Canadian Confederation. It was the Cariboo hard-rock miners
of that day who defeated the schemes of the Bonners of their
day. Today, it is the farmers, railways workers, small
business people, miners and others in the Cariboo who are
now given an unsought-for opportunity to administer’ a like
resounding defeat to this U.S,-orientated Socred carpet-

bagger.

The prosecutor of destitute: Native Indians for fishing and
hunting for food — even after the courts have exonerated
them for such ‘‘offenses;” the architect of vicious anti-labor
legislation and ex-parte injunctions, designed to prohibit
and obstruct working men and women from securing a greater
share of the vast wealth their labors have produced — to use
the courts to imprison working men because they have ig-
nored these-undemocratic and unjust laws,

It is bad enough for the Cariboo people to have a Socred
reject foisted upon them, It is worse to have one with such
an odious record of sellout and surrender of the peoples’
heritage and sovereign independence — which the Cariboo min-
ers fought so valiantly to preserve 95 years ago. The people
of the Cariboo, are not likely to swap their time-honored
concepts (and struggle) for democracy and independence for
the Bennett-Bonner brand, based on the fast buck and the big
Socred stick.

The best interests of B.C, would be served by keeping
Bonner out of the legislature, We don’t need his kind in Vic-
toria, The best service the people of the Cariboo can render
their province is to reject the Socred salesman of B.C.’s
resources to the U,S. monopolies,

ast week we noted where

NDP provincial leader Bob
Strachan is quoted as having dub-
bed Premier W.A.C, Bennett and
most of his cabinet ministers
as “economic idiots”, From such
a deduction it could readily be
assumed that they are “political
idiots’? as well since the two
are pretty closely related in
modern day politics.

A good many months ago the
Communist Party, the NDP and
sections of the trade union move-
ment, to say nothing of other in-
fluential bodies of opinion in the
B.C. community, were already
painfully aware that the Yanks
_ had sure. taken exuberant W,.A.C,
*to the cleaners” on the Columbia
River giveaway deal; that the
Washington horse-traders had
short-changed him to the tune
of $150-million — and certainly
not less, on that infamous deal,

This deal, as everyone should
remember, saw a smiling Wac
-_- waving a fistful of Yankee green-
backs (the price of the peoples’

heritage), all set to finance the
building of Columbia River dams

to store B.C. water for U.S,
use, with the *“surplus’’ bundle
left over — to finance his Peace
River Power project for the ever-
lasting cheap power, comfort and
glory of B.C, It was a magnifi-
cent fantasia while it lasted, but
like Wac’s Kelowna bonfire which

“consumed the provincial debt,

a slight scraping among the ashes
produced one hell of a stack of
“contingent liabilities’? — which
now include not only giving the
Yanks our water at a basement-
bargaiv. vit ce, but financing t!y-
containers to hold it in until they
call for it,

Now with his ‘‘bloom off the
boom”, spurred along by the
tight money policies of a Liberal
government in Ottawa and all the
alleged inflationary alarums of
federal Finance Minister Sharp,
our ebullient premier looks
around for a scapegoat for his

‘feconomic idiocy’’, andpresto, —
the old moth-eaten “explanation”

that his one hundred or two hun-

~ November 4, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2

B.C. needs new economic
policies say Communists

Cont’d from pg. 1
corporation be formed which
would initiate and undertake sec-
ondary production of wood-based
chemicals and plastics, The sec-
tion on forestry urged that all
foreign-owned forest monopolies
be expropriated at true book
value,

Another section of the report
condemned the wholesale export
of raw ores, It urged the build-
ing of crown-owned smelters and
advocated that the ores mined in
B.C. shall be refined and smelter-
ed in B.C. It also advocated a
crown corporation which would
undertake the production of such
secondary mineral products as

“ean be profitably produced in

B.C.

The report also called for the
ereation of a chemical industry
in B.C, It urged that all forms
of energy production and trans-
mission be brought under the
ownership of a single public au-
thority, and that suchan authority
may continue to export power and
gas but its first duty will be to
see that both are used to the
fullest extent possible for do-
mestic needs before being ex-
ported,

Urging that the people of B.C,
“take control over their own
destiny”, the report said that
‘‘given the hydro power that is
already assured, the secondary
processing of minerals and wood
and the development of a chemi-
cal and plastics industry, the
future of B.C, as a secondary
manufacturing area would be
assured,”

LABOR UNITY

Other reports presented to the
convention covered the fields of
electoral policy, labor, the needs
of the younger generation, and
organization,

The report on electoral policy
said that the Communists inB.C.
will seek to work with all those

dred million shortage is not due
to the Yanks taking him to the
cleaners, but the “unreasonable”
wage demands of labor — with
the Liberals joining lustily in
the chorus,

Obviously, therefore, with an .

“economic idiot?’ starring in the
role of top salesman of B,C,
resources to U.S. monopoly, the
people of this banner province
can look forward to a period of
shrinking income, coupled with
a spiralling “out-go” of tax
dollars, with little to show for
it except government by “econo-
mic idiots’? — a high price in-
deed for our own electoral
“idiocy”,

Moreover, the penalties ofthis
‘economic idiocy” are by no
means confined to the Columbia-
Peace debacle, Just last week
a very competent educationalist,
UBC President John Macdonald,
threw up his hands in disgust at
this Socred rule-of-thumb econo-
mies practiced by our Socred
“economic idiots’’ who insist on
meeting the pressing educational
requirements in a changing world
with the old “blessed are the
poor” partisan alms-bag hand-
outs, A form of idiocy aimed at
getting a maximum political
yardage for a minimum outlay
— and the devil take the old
Alma Mater,

who want to create a genuine
labor and democratic alternative
to the Socreds in Victoria. It
appealed to the unions, NDP,
and other democratic forces to
unite to elect an anti-monopoly
government,

Pointing to the failure of the

Pointing to the lessons of the
past year in which labor defeat-
ed the attempts of the mono-
polies to prevent substantial
gains, the report said greater —
unity would be needed.

YOUTH NEEDS

Concern for the needs of the
young generation was highlight-

Socreds to win the overwhelming
majority sought in the last
election and the big gains made
by the NDP, the report said the
people of B.C, may again be
entering a period of actively
searching for an alternative to
the Socreds, ‘‘Labor and the
democratic movement in B,C.
must create such an alternative
which could replace the Socreds
as the government of B.C. and
block the return to power of the
old-line parties,’’

ed in a special report on youth
presented by Charlie Boylan, The
report pointed to the growing
involvement of young people in
public affairs and, the issues
which are stirring young British
Columbians into action, It urged
that the Communist Party pay
closer attention to the fight for
the needs of all sections of youth
today and proposed the drafting
of a program for youth by the
Party,

The 83 delegates, representing,
Communist Party clubs from all —
parts of B.C., concluded their
two-day deliberations by electing
a Provincial Committee of 25
members, This committee will
convene next weekend to elect
its executive and table offices,

The report on labor pointed
to the big problems facing B,C.
working people — such as auto-
mation, anti-labor legislation, the
fight against injunctions in labor
disputes and struggle to defeat
any attempt by government and
employers to impose a wage Nigel Morgan, the Party’s pro-
freeze on labor. _ vincial leader announced,

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Remembrance Day vigil

A Remembrance Day peace vigil is being organized by the Peace
Action League of Vancouver for next Friday, The vigil will com-
mence at the Cenotaph at 11:30 a.m, A brief wreath-laying cere-
mony will take place and a silence will be observed, paying tribute
to those who died in two world wars,

Following the Cenotaph ceremony the participants will march
up Hastings and Granville to Georgia and Granville (to the Eaton’s
parking lot) where a half hour vigil will be held from 12:00 to
12:30 p.m,
regular Saturday vigil organized by the League,

The Peace Action League has also announced that in con-
junction with the Remembrance Day observance it will sponsor two
showings of the outstanding and controversial film, ‘‘Thou Shalt
Not Kill,” This film was banned in a number of countries because
of its strong anti-war theme, Showings will be at the Dunbar
Theatre, Sunday, November 13th at 3 p.m, and 8p.m, Admission
is $1.25 for adults and 75¢ for students,

This will take the place, for this week only, of the —

A formula well illustrated by
a recent outburst of Hydro Tzar
‘*Prof” Gordon Shrum, who opines
that the waitress serving his pate
de foi gras and pheasant doesn’t
require any education above
Grade 2, so why waste money
on bigger and better universities?

Then we have the Tzar of
this Hydro Authority, backed by
our Victorian “economic idiots”
(in this instance crazy-like-a-
fox), scheming on how best they
can unload a decrepit transit bus
system upon those financially
harassed municipalities affected,
A “contingent liability on wheels”
for which the municipalities must
purchase its motive power from
Hydro Authority at exorbitant
price rates, plus the full cost
of keeping the buses in opera-
tion themselves, In other words

Hydro Authority takes the cream —
while the taxpayers, by virtue
of their “public ownership” gets
the well-skimmed skim milk —
the end product of *economic
idiocy”,

To top it off Friday of last
week $75,000-a-year Tzar Shrum
gave out with another educational
gem, to wit: The Peace River
power project has no financial
troubles that can’t be solved.
All that needs be done is “to
raise consumer electricity rates.
This is not a threat, not a hint,
not a possible solution,” Shrum >
told a newspaper gathering last
week, It is simply Shrum’s way —
of telling British Columbians that
the full cost of Socred “economic
idiocy” inevitably will be chalked
up against them, whether it be
kilowatts or campus needs,

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